#book 19

[adriles]

Horses are actually incredibly erudite. Their power is boundless . They can tell you the date of your imminent death, but they wont because they want it to be a surprise..

[dr-dendritic-trees]

I will get around to posting properly about The War That Killed Achilles at some point, but in the interim:

I have learned from it that people apparently are critical of Book 19 of the Iliad ?!?!?!?!

I do not understand this?! I am aghast?!

Its one of the most emotionally intensive sequences and also one of my favourites?! Do people just not have... feelings???

[rjalker]

Cassie Animorphs like

[ID: The meme of Mr. Waternoose from the movie Monsters Inc saying, "I'll kidnap a thousand children before I let this company die", now edited so he's saying instead, "I'll allow a thouand children to be tortured before I'll kill a single slave owner and lose my self-appointed moral highground." End ID.]

[softly-and-suddenly]

“We shall still keep you safe this time, O hard Achilleus. And yet the day of your death is near, but it is not we who are to blame, but a great god and powerful Destiny. For it was not because we were slow, because we were careless, that the Trojans have taken the armor from the shoulders of Patroklos, but it was that high god, the child of lovey-haired Leto, who killed him among the champions and gave the glory to Hektor. But for us, we two could run with the blast of the west wind who they say is the lightest of all things; yet still for you there is destiny to be killed in force by a god and a mortal.”

[theredandwhitequeen]

Book 19 of the 50 book challenge. Wake: the hidden history of women led slave revolts by Rebecca Hall. It’s a memoir in graphic novel form. It’s really upsetting but everybody needs to read this. Women who led slave revolts don’t have their names attached so nobody really knows their stories. It’s heartbreaking but something people need to read about. The authors research took her to Lloyds of London who refused her access to their historical archives because they insured slave ships and now don’t want to be sued for it. The art is very powerful.

[shisasan]

𝙹𝚞𝚕𝚢 𝟷𝟿, 𝟷𝟿𝟷𝟶 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙳𝚒𝚊𝚛𝚒𝚎𝚜 𝙾𝚏 𝙵𝚛𝚊𝚗𝚣 𝙺𝚊𝚏𝚔𝚊, 𝟷𝟿𝟷𝟶-𝟷𝟿𝟷𝟹

[ID: July 19, slept, awoke, slept, awoke, miserable life. END ID]

[egophiliac]

still absolutely losing my mind over Lilia

[jeanmoreaue]

the fact that nora made Jean gentle at heart is so special to me. despite everything that’s happened to him and although he’s a bit abrasive, he still cleans the damn dishes and puts away leftovers without being asked i love him so much

[sentientsky]

The Quite Nice and Fairly Accurate Good Omens Script Book Depiction of Gay Yearning by Neil Gaiman

[brucedinsman]

Book Review: The Unsuitable Amish Wedding by Samantha Price

Book Review: The Unsuitable Amish Wedding by Samantha Price

Amish Bonnet Sisters 19 The Unsuitable Amish Wedding by Samantha PriceMy rating: 4 of 5 starsKindle UnlimitedWhat unsuitable wedding?Again the story didn’t agree with the title. I was expecting a lot more drama from Wilma and Ada. Miriam’s mother and grandmother don’t seem all that enthused either, but the ex-boyfriend almost kills the whole thing. Cliffhanger for the next book: why is Debbie…

[dykeinthedark]

doing this thing i call "reading every class high school lit book i missed out on" partially because as an english minor i feel like a lot of ppl in my english lectures have already read these books in higschool partially because high school english classes suck balls and i think the way they taught kids to read books was lame and dumb as hell and killed love for reading and i think some of these books they make kids read should never be experienced in a classroom setting

[adriles]

yeah i am a legendary warrior doomed to a heroic death but , if we want to be honest ,my fate sucks soooo much.

[korrasamibottles]

Sometimes a family can be one red panda one white clifford and four fucked up 18 year olds stalking some gay guy

[cheeriochat]

GUYS GUYS LOOK AT WHAT I SAW AT MY LOCAL DANGERFIELD

'ASTARION APPROVES' 😭😭😭

Omg I was so gonna buy the necklace but I thought to leave it on the mannequin for the next bg3 fan.

[canismajor0]

can I invite you to the ball ?

[inkskinned]

i. about 2 weeks ago, i was told there's a good chance that in 5 or so years, i'll need a wheelchair.

ii. okay. i loved harry potter as a kid. i have a hypothesis about this to be honest - why people still kind of like it. it's that she got very lucky. she managed to make a cross-generational hit. it was something shared for both parents and kids. it was right at the start of a huge cultural shift from pre to post-internet. i genuinely think many people were just seeking community; not her writing. it was a nice shorthand to create connection. which is a long way of saying - she didn't build this legacy, we built it for her. she got lucky, just once. that's all.

iii. to be real with you, i still struggle with identifying as someone with a disability, which is wild, especially given the ways my life has changed. i always come up against internalized ableism and shame - convinced even right now that i'm faking it for attention. i passed out in a grocery store recently. i hit my head on the shelves while i went down.

iv. he raises his eyebrows while he sends me a look. her most recent new book has POTS featured in it. okay, i say. i already don't like where this is going. we both take another bite of ramen. it is a trait of the villain, he says. we both roll our eyes about it.

v. so one of the things about being nonbinary but previously super into harry potter is that i super hate jk rowling. but it is also not good for my mental health to regret any form of joy i engaged with as a kid. i can't punish my young self for being so into the books - it was a passion, and it was how i made most of my friends. everyone knew about it. i felt like everyone had my same joy, my same fixation. as a "weird kid", this sense of belonging resonated with me so loudly that i would have done anything to protect it.

vi. as a present, my parents once took me out of school to go see the second movie. it is an incredibly precious memory: my mom straight-up lying about a dentist appointment. us snickering and sneaking into the weekday matinee. within seven years of this experience, the internet would be a necessity to get my homework finished. the world had permanently changed. harry potter was a relic, a way any of us could hold onto something of the analog.

vii. by sheer luck, the year that i started figuring out the whole gender fluid thing was also the first year people started to point out that she might have some internalized biases. i remember tumblr before that; how often her name was treated as godhood. how harry potter was kind of a word synonymous for "nerdy but cool." i would walk out of that year tasting he/him and they/them; she would walk out snarling and snapping about it.

viii. when i teach older kids creative writing, i usually tell them - so, she did change the face of young adult fiction, there's no denying that. she had a lot more opportunities than many of us will - there were more publishing houses, less push for "virally" popular content creators. but beyond reading another book, we need to write more books. we need to uplift the voices of those who remain unrepresented. we need to push for an exposure to the bigotry baked into the publishing system. and i promise you: you can write better than she ever did. nothing she did was what was magical - it was the way that the community responded to it.

ix. i get home from ramen. three other people have screenshotted the POTS thing and sent it to me. can you fucking believe we're still hearing this shit from her when it's almost twenty-fucking-twenty-three. the villain is notably also popular on tumblr. i just think that's funny. this woman is a billionaire and she's mad that she can't control the opinions of some people on a dying blue site that makes no money. lady, and i mean this - get a fucking life.

x. i am sorry to the kid i was. maybe the kid you were too. none of us deserved to see something like this ruined. that thing used to be precious to me. and now - all those good times; measured into dust.

/// 9.6.2022 // FUCKING AGAIN, JK? Are you fucking kidding me?